Vice President Joe Biden reassured environmentalists Sunday night that the Obama administration would not let climate change fall by the wayside in the president’s second term.

“I’ll tell you what my green dream is: that we finally face up to climate change,” Biden said during a surprise appearance at the “Green Ball,” an inaugural weekend event for environmental groups. …

Biden offered no details about what the administration’s approach will be but said, “I don’t intend on ending this four years without getting an awful lot more done.”

He added: “Keep the faith.”

It’s the type of reassurance that the Obama administration should probably keep on coming to stay in the environmental lobby’s good graces, because Team Obama pragmatically let the issue fall by the wayside during the campaign season and the extent of the administration’s second-term policies are still unclear.

While it’s certainly too much to hope that the federal government will stop playing venture capitalist with our money in the ostensible attempt to decrease our reliance on foreign energy with renewable “investments” (womp, womp), how much or how little the Obama administration will allow for oil-and-gas permitting and/or clamp down with zealous environmental regulations is still to be determined. The green lobby is looking for even more on the front of emissions and hydrofracking regulations, and the Obama administration is going to have to decide how to balance their demands with the clear opportunities afforded by the shale oil-and-gas boom already underway. Decisions on the Keystone XL pipeline and replacements for Jackson at EPA, Salazar at Interior, and probably Chu at Energy are all on deck here, and I think will provide at least some measure of insight into which way the Obama admin intends to play it.

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I don’t really think O and his minions are going to be able to make a lot of headway on this as we are going to bounce from crisis-to-crisis be it fiscally or in foreign affairs. I hate to even say it and I hope I am so wrong but it feels like it is going to be even bumpier than the last 4 years.

Obama’s administration is what I would call the final chapter in reparations. They are all about fulfilling the promise of 40 acres and a mule. Only now its your 40 acres and your mule they want. How this is being supported by the majority of the population I do not understand. Sad day for the country.
P.S. I do not intend this to be a racist comment. Only pointing out the obvious and socialist nature of the agenda.

While it’s certainly too much to hope that the federal government will stop playing venture capitalist with our money in the ostensible attempt to decrease our reliance on foreign energy with renewable “investments” (womp, womp), how much or how little the Obama administration will allow for oil-and-gas permitting and/or clamp down with zealous environmental regulations is still to be determined.

It’s waste of money like this that the GOP House needs to defund, and can defund! Look, I like and support Boehner, but the House needs to do some things like this to cheer the base.

Obama has created such a fiscal mess he isn’t going to be able to do much the next 4 years. The court is really the only place he has much of a chance to do any new damage to our country. Time to just buckle down again for the next four years and find ways to work around his destructive economic policies.

I honestly believe you have to be a special case of stupid to believe in “climate change” as something we can control or have to do “something” about. If the Earth is changing climate, it’s because it’s what it’s always done. Of course, you have to be a special case of stupid to be a liberal, so I see why they go hand in hand.